Mitchell Young enters the courtroom of Oakland County Circuit Court Judge Shalina Kumar before the start of his trial in the death of Robert Cipriano, pictured Wednesday June 19, 2013. (Oakland Press Photo:Vaughn Gurganian)

Tucker Cipriano "looked shaken up" in the hours after an attack at his parents' Farmington Hills home left his father dead and his mother and brother badly injured.

That's according to Samantha Chick, now 15, who allowed Cipriano and his alleged accomplice, Mitchell Young, to stay at her parents' Keego Harbor home on the night the attacks occurred.

Chick was one of several witnesses called Monday during the third full day of testimony in the murder trial against Young.

Young is charged with first-degree murder, felony murder, two counts of assault with intent to murder and armed robbery in the attack on the Cipriano family. Cipriano, his former co-defendant, pleaded no contest last week to first-degree felony murder and will spend the rest of his life in prison for the beating death of his father, Robert Cipriano.

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Cipriano and Young made plans to stay the night at the Chick home hours before the baseball bat attacks in the early-morning hours of April 16, 2012. At one point, Cipriano and Young reached the house but said they had to leave to "get some money," Chick said.

"It didn't really seem normal," Chick said.

"Neither of them had jobs so it didn't really make sense that they'd be going and getting money."

Ian Zinderman, who testified earlier in this trial and was with Young and Cipriano earlier that night, stayed at the Chick residence.

"We just kind of sat down and listened to music and waited for Roderick (Young's nickname) and Tucker," Chick said.

Cipriano returned later with a bite on his arm and blood on his shirt. Young was arrested at the Cipriano residence.

"I asked (Cipriano) what happened and he said he was attacked by a dog," Chick said.

"He looked shaken up."

Chick, who was with a group of a few other people at the home, said no one asked anything else about where Cipriano had been or what he did.

"I don't think we wanted to know," she said.

"He didn't seem like himself. He seemed way quieter, more serious, and kind of distraught about something."

Most everyone at the home began to smoke Spice retrieved from Young's truck, which Cipriano drove away from the Cipriano home. Chick later searched Cipriano's name on the Internet and found news reports about the attacks.

"At some point, Tucker woke up and saw the stuff online and asked Ian to take the truck to Ferndale," Chick said.

He asked Chick to grab some clothes and a knife from the vehicle, but before either party could get into the truck, police took them into custody.

Farmington Hills Police Officer Mark Mostek was the one who took Chick and Zinderman into custody. He also testified Monday and said that Zinderman did not immediately tell the truth.

Zinderman initially said that he hadn't seen Cipriano in a month.

"This is no joke," Mostek told him. "You need to tell me right now where Tucker is."

Police surrounded the Chick residence and arrested Cipriano, who was shirtless. He was "sullen" and "not uncooperative," Mostek said.